Address:
Department of Mathematics
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903

Office:
228 Kerchof Hall

Phone: 434-924-4933

FAX: 434-982-3084

Email: iwh @virginia.edu

Office hours:
Monday: 2:00-3:00pm; Wednesday: 4:00-5:00pm

Ira Herbst
Ph.D., Physics, University of California-Berkeley, 1971

Research: Most of my work is in quantum mechanics and covers a range of subjects from non-relativistic quantum electrodynamics to the Laplacian on non-compact Riemannian manifolds. My objective has been to choose problems with some relation to physics, but with the overriding factor to make sure that the mathematical content is interesting and challenging.

Selected papers:

I. Herbst and J. Rama, Instability of pre-existing resonances under a small constant electric field.
(arXiv:1310.4745)